GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spherical Earth, Population Geography, Actual Size
12 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Scale: a map scale model of all or a portion of earth flat depiction of nearly round earth geographers of mapmaking: cartography. To make a map, 2 things are important: o how much of the earth"s surface to depict on the map (map scale) o how to transfer a spherical. Map scale: relationship of a feature"s size on a map to its actual size on earth. o aratioorfraction,awrittenscale,agraphicscale. A ratio or fraction: show numerical distance b/t distances on the map and earth"s surface lomoar cpsd| 2151316. 1:10 000 000 meaning tha one unit (inch, centimeter, foot) on the map represents 10 000 000 of the same unit on the ground. The number on the left always refers to a unit distance on the map and the number on the right always refers to the same unit distance on earth"s surface.
